Born in Bogotá, nurtured in the culturally sophisticated cities, where jazz and classical music share the stage with salsa and an infinite variety of Colombian folk airs. His main inspiration was
Edy Martinez, his uncle, who came to fame in the salsa scene in New York in the 1970 as pianist and arranger of conguero Ray Barreto, who was the main influence of Torres. Samuel
percussionist is a musician and scholar, graduated in Music Composition Javeriana University in Bogota. Shortly after arriving in the United States, his career took a dramatic change, when contacted by the renowned trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval, to add to your group.
Over time, Torres began performing with the greats of jazz, Latin pop and salsa, including luminaries such as Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, Don Byron, Claudio Roditi, Richard Bona, Poncho Sanchez, Lila Downs, Marc Anthony, Thalía and international superstar, Shakira. His talent has been featured in concerts with the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony, as well as a multitude of festivals music around the world.
In 2006, Torres Skin Tones recorded their debut as a producer, creating an album that quickly solidified his reputation as one of the most creative percussionists in Latin jazz today. The product was listed by the magazine Jazz Times as "intelligent, sophisticated and explosive time." Then comes Yaounde, more stylistically adventurous recording, with 13 exhilarating tracks extracted from the inexhaustible reservoir of Colombian folk traditions, as well as African sounds, funk and avant-garde jazz, Torres has cultivated throughout his career. Currently
artist's most important works Percussion instruments America LP, who produced the DVD for Drum Solos Revisited. Martin Cohen, the founder of LP who has worked with most of the finest percussionists in the world during the past four decades, says towers is the most talented arranger and producer who has been found in more than 25 years.
Samuel Torres (interview)
When the sale went to the disk and if possible to get online? Yaoundé
be available online through my website: www.samueltorres.com or CDBABY, who in turn distributes it to other online shops which, it is important to note, distribute it to any country in the world, the launch of disc will be on 23 March, but we'll be able to purchase online after the second week of February. Listeners can also buy downloads through iTunes and other digital stores worldwide.
What is the idea that developed in this new production as we know that you are not only instruments but also a composer and arranger?
Yaoundé is my second solo album. This work was my first trip to Africa with bassist and singer Richard Bona, with his group went to Cameroon's capital Yaounde in Western Central Africa. That trip was a really important experience in my life both personally and musically and the return to NY I composed the theme Yaounde That was my starting point to continue writing the rest of the issues.
In search of "inspiration" I was fortunate to travel to many places in the world and that it took me to find elements of my own country, Colombia and its connection to Africa.
The music and concept album is a vision of all these elements from a standpoint of NY (where I live for 8 years) and in the aesthetics of Latin Jazz, then used elements of folklore from different parts of Colombia ( the Caribbean, the Pacific, the plains, the Andean region) with African sounds, Cuban music, jazz, funk and salsa. What
musicians participate with you in this new production?
Well I've been fortunate to have great musicians of different nationalities and all residents of NY in the horn section is Michael Rodriguez (USA) on trumpet and Joel Frahm (USA) on saxophone, the piano, fender rhodes and keyboards Manuel Valera (Cuba), the bassist John Benitez (Puerto Rico), Ernesto Simpson on drums (Cuba) and as guest Anat Cohen (Israel) on clarinet, Ralph Irizarry (Puerto Rico - NY), Sofia Rei Koutsovitis ( Argentina) on vocals and Andrés García (Colombia) in the Colombian tiple
compositions are his "all or will include compositions by other authors or classic jazz or traditional music of Colombia? If I wrote and
I arranged all the tracks except "Ronca Paddle" is a traditional theme of the Colombian Pacific folklore with an arrangement that did Sofia Rei Koutsovitis and I, in which one replaces the marimba chonta by a set of 8 congas tuned as marimba and we made a small change of metrics (from 12 / 8 we had a 11 / 8) creating a flowing rhythm not very clear.
The musical arrangements are mine, except "Ronca Paddle", but of course, the end result is the combination of musicality and interpretation of each of the musicians who participated in Yaoundé.
Are you on tour for his new production?
Yes precisely will be playing on Friday January 29 in Tarragona - Spain in XQBEAT percussion festival. In April we in Europe in Germany, Holland, France and Hungary, in June in Cali, Colombia in Tamborimba Percussion Festival.
addition to my tours with other artists are planning more things for the new year and I of course eager to see the beautiful land of Peru.
What musicians have influenced you? Well
are many influences that I had. It was a combination of salsa, jazz, Brazilian music and percussion classical masters such as Giovanni Hidalgo, Tata Guines, Patato, Anga, Mongo Santamaria, Richie Florez has been a great influence on me.
Anyway I think my biggest influence was Ray Barretto not only as drummer but as leader of his own salsa group both as Latin-Jazz, the group has always been at the forefront (remember "The Other Road" album forefront of Latin jazz recorded in 1973) and always knew how to surround himself with great arrangers and performers. Please
greetings to our readers and especially the Peruvian public
A very big greeting to the people in my neighboring country, Peru, I hope some day soon to visit, a country full of wonderful people, delicious food and a great musical tradition (I'm a faithful follower of Peruvian music.)
Greetings to all and hope to see you soon.
NEW YORK (AP) .- The Colombian musician Samuel Torres, who this month released his second solo "Yaoundé", which fuses the music of his country with African rhythms, said he became a percussionist through its maternal grandparents.
The inspiration for this album, which was released on March 23 and you can buy on Internet, emerged from his first trip to Cameroon bassist and singer Richard Bona, who, according to Efe said the Colombian, marked both artistic and personal life.
"Yaoundé", the title her second album, was the first song he wrote for this project, which also drew rhythms from different parts of Colombia that originated in African music, fused with jazz, a genre that has been highlighted.
The theme "Ronca Paddle", played by Sofia Rei Koutsovitis Argentina and also included on this disc belongs to the folklore of the Colombian Pacific.
"There are many elements of Colombian music without falling into the folklore and the Afro-Cuban," Efe said, recalling that first traveled to Africa in 2005, a continent that has visited seven times and "one of the things struck me most was how people live there. "
"Their daily struggle is to find water and one is complaining here about the situations we have, but we can decide if that is what we want or not, but they do not," he said.
recalled his childhood in Bogota, when he came in contact with Latin jazz, mambo, the music of Tito Puente, "the New York of the 70" and that your grandparents listened to "because my uncle Eddie Martinez, who is a pianist" played with several of these bands.
"I grew up with that music, which was not usually heard in Bogotá that time," he said, adding that when he was between 7 and 8 years, his grandparents died "and that was my contact with this music and became "a normal kid" who listened to pop and rock radio. "
However, he said, spent much time alone at home because his mother worked, what did the opportunity to" dig and listen again to the records of their grandparents. "
" As to the twelve or thirteen was a fan of 'Superman' and I remembered there was a record that was on the cover and my grandmother put a lot, "he said referring to the album" Indestructible "percussionist Ray Barretto Rican.
"That decided he wanted to be like Barreto. I found him this power, the engine that inspired me. At that time in Bogota society not hear salsa on the radio, it was very rock, very Americanized, "he said.
argued that unlike other drummers," did not grow up surrounded by drums. I put the disks in my apartment and I imagined New York and the Caribbean in my mind, is something I feel in my soul, blood, "he said.
" The drums were the neighbors sent me to the police constantly " recalled with a laugh Torres, who at age 15 hours a day spent studying at the Catholic school to take courses in music at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, and some nights to play with various groups in clubs in the capital.
"In the bars the employees and musicians helped me a lot" because it was less " said.
The teenager then kept his night life to avoid being expelled from the strict Catholic school I attended.
After graduating from college, where he studied classical music, Torres worked several years in his country that was released by music and arrangements for soap operas like "Dog Love," which won awards, and for movies like "Blow stadium Sergio Cabrera.
However, his dream of Latin jazz musician still dormant, so that at age 21 was established in Miami, where he began working with Arturo Sandoval "preparing to come to New York", which finally did in 2002.
"
already knew me for four years with Sandoval and let me play in the 'downloads' in the clubs, "where he also met Barreto, who shared the stage as well as other important musicians, he said.
" Here I started to make my career in Latin jazz and I have fulfilled my dream, but I still have much to do. The reality is that it has been difficult, but there is a level of good musicians with whom you dream and you have inspired and given me the opportunity to work and that makes you find your own voice, "he said.
Sammy TORRES our" Manenguito Creole "served its purpose with his first album entitled SKIN TONES (I dared to translate it as TONE LEATHER). Surprised and reacted to music lovers of jazz and Latin music, not only for quality in the production and recording is vital at this time, but by the multitalented wielding protagonist in composing, arranging and playing conga bold style a progressive and Giovanni Hidalgo, Anga, Joel and Poleo (which is too big), of course not forgetting the ancient heritage of Chano, Mongo, El Niño Alfonso and Tata.
This young "rolo Bogota" looking like a decent student has a background Javeriana University (which I would translate "tour") that includes 4 years with the demanding and unforgiving Arturo Sandoval, jazz festivals in Japan USA and Europe, Second place in a very difficult hand contest free jazz percussion Thelonious Monk and survive in the harsh environment of Latin jazz Yorker where it is recognized and applauded.
TONES OF LEATHER Samuel Torres reiterated that these days the profession of conguero not limited to "guapería" to get their hands on the drum loud and can make a rainbow of music around the leather, if you study, listen , is learned and inspiration as it has done with dedication, technique and discipline the young Torres.
The trip by the grooves of this exciting self-financed CD like many other good alternatives that do not have "patrons" in this dark time in which to Music the "secrets" grammy already know who are the winners and who are successful, opens with a crazy montuno, which heats the cd from the first chords, and prepares the listener for a musical journey that takes you from the motherland, that of Gypsies and rumba, to Colombia, Brazil, the Middle East and ends at the No. 7 subway bound for Queens, New York. Amid all this "musical melting pot" to boil soothes us the voice of a siren Julia Dollinson name.
credits accompanying musicians show that Samuel and skin tones deserve the applause (the standing ovation I would say) and respect for international Latin jazz community. With Ernesto Simpson on drums, John Benitez on bass and piano Hector Martinong in "grounded" (a term that prevents electrical short circuits) a conga virtuoso and Samuel was able to go from heaven to hell, grab all 4 congas and back to reality (in other words that Afinque sometimes losing the speed of the drum) with all the peace and security that this musical Bermuda Triangle registry in this unique recording. SKIN TONES
and Samuel Torres our "Colombian Giovanni" and entered the list of "grammy underground" 2005-2006 which is awarded the anonymous buyers and music lovers of good latin jazz in the world!
Sammy "did you get the card" and I will have eaten! Highest Recommended
Gary Dominguez
Musicians
Topics
1. Crazy Montuno
2. Interlude one
3. Saying goodbye
4. Two
Interlude 5. Observatory
6. Rumba with Maria
7. Ajiaco (colombian potato soup)
8. The key
9.
skintones 10. October 22nd
11. Express to Queens
12. Fairy tale
13. Three
Interlude 14. Ajiaco (radio version)
15. Observatory (radio version)
16. Crazy Montuno (radio version)
17. The key (radio version)
John Benitez - Bass
Hector Martignon - Piano
Julia Dollison - Vocal
Mike Rodriguez - trumpet
Ernesto Simpson - Drums, Cowbell, EFX
Mike Campagna - Tenor Sax
Edmar Castaneda - Harp
Ralph Irizarry - Timbal
Wolfgang Barros - Colombian Maracon
Samuel Torres - Congas, Percussion, Fender Rhodes, EFX, Piano
Edy Martinez, his uncle, who came to fame in the salsa scene in New York in the 1970 as pianist and arranger of conguero Ray Barreto, who was the main influence of Torres. Samuel
percussionist is a musician and scholar, graduated in Music Composition Javeriana University in Bogota. Shortly after arriving in the United States, his career took a dramatic change, when contacted by the renowned trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval, to add to your group.
Over time, Torres began performing with the greats of jazz, Latin pop and salsa, including luminaries such as Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, Don Byron, Claudio Roditi, Richard Bona, Poncho Sanchez, Lila Downs, Marc Anthony, Thalía and international superstar, Shakira. His talent has been featured in concerts with the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony, as well as a multitude of festivals music around the world.
In 2006, Torres Skin Tones recorded their debut as a producer, creating an album that quickly solidified his reputation as one of the most creative percussionists in Latin jazz today. The product was listed by the magazine Jazz Times as "intelligent, sophisticated and explosive time." Then comes Yaounde, more stylistically adventurous recording, with 13 exhilarating tracks extracted from the inexhaustible reservoir of Colombian folk traditions, as well as African sounds, funk and avant-garde jazz, Torres has cultivated throughout his career. Currently
artist's most important works Percussion instruments America LP, who produced the DVD for Drum Solos Revisited. Martin Cohen, the founder of LP who has worked with most of the finest percussionists in the world during the past four decades, says towers is the most talented arranger and producer who has been found in more than 25 years.
Samuel Torres (interview)
When the sale went to the disk and if possible to get online? Yaoundé
be available online through my website: www.samueltorres.com or CDBABY, who in turn distributes it to other online shops which, it is important to note, distribute it to any country in the world, the launch of disc will be on 23 March, but we'll be able to purchase online after the second week of February. Listeners can also buy downloads through iTunes and other digital stores worldwide.
What is the idea that developed in this new production as we know that you are not only instruments but also a composer and arranger?
Yaoundé is my second solo album. This work was my first trip to Africa with bassist and singer Richard Bona, with his group went to Cameroon's capital Yaounde in Western Central Africa. That trip was a really important experience in my life both personally and musically and the return to NY I composed the theme Yaounde That was my starting point to continue writing the rest of the issues.
In search of "inspiration" I was fortunate to travel to many places in the world and that it took me to find elements of my own country, Colombia and its connection to Africa.
The music and concept album is a vision of all these elements from a standpoint of NY (where I live for 8 years) and in the aesthetics of Latin Jazz, then used elements of folklore from different parts of Colombia ( the Caribbean, the Pacific, the plains, the Andean region) with African sounds, Cuban music, jazz, funk and salsa. What
musicians participate with you in this new production?
Well I've been fortunate to have great musicians of different nationalities and all residents of NY in the horn section is Michael Rodriguez (USA) on trumpet and Joel Frahm (USA) on saxophone, the piano, fender rhodes and keyboards Manuel Valera (Cuba), the bassist John Benitez (Puerto Rico), Ernesto Simpson on drums (Cuba) and as guest Anat Cohen (Israel) on clarinet, Ralph Irizarry (Puerto Rico - NY), Sofia Rei Koutsovitis ( Argentina) on vocals and Andrés García (Colombia) in the Colombian tiple
compositions are his "all or will include compositions by other authors or classic jazz or traditional music of Colombia? If I wrote and
I arranged all the tracks except "Ronca Paddle" is a traditional theme of the Colombian Pacific folklore with an arrangement that did Sofia Rei Koutsovitis and I, in which one replaces the marimba chonta by a set of 8 congas tuned as marimba and we made a small change of metrics (from 12 / 8 we had a 11 / 8) creating a flowing rhythm not very clear.
The musical arrangements are mine, except "Ronca Paddle", but of course, the end result is the combination of musicality and interpretation of each of the musicians who participated in Yaoundé.
Are you on tour for his new production? Yes precisely will be playing on Friday January 29 in Tarragona - Spain in XQBEAT percussion festival. In April we in Europe in Germany, Holland, France and Hungary, in June in Cali, Colombia in Tamborimba Percussion Festival.
addition to my tours with other artists are planning more things for the new year and I of course eager to see the beautiful land of Peru.
What musicians have influenced you? Well
are many influences that I had. It was a combination of salsa, jazz, Brazilian music and percussion classical masters such as Giovanni Hidalgo, Tata Guines, Patato, Anga, Mongo Santamaria, Richie Florez has been a great influence on me.
Anyway I think my biggest influence was Ray Barretto not only as drummer but as leader of his own salsa group both as Latin-Jazz, the group has always been at the forefront (remember "The Other Road" album forefront of Latin jazz recorded in 1973) and always knew how to surround himself with great arrangers and performers. Please
greetings to our readers and especially the Peruvian public
A very big greeting to the people in my neighboring country, Peru, I hope some day soon to visit, a country full of wonderful people, delicious food and a great musical tradition (I'm a faithful follower of Peruvian music.)
Greetings to all and hope to see you soon.
NEW YORK (AP) .- The Colombian musician Samuel Torres, who this month released his second solo "Yaoundé", which fuses the music of his country with African rhythms, said he became a percussionist through its maternal grandparents.
The inspiration for this album, which was released on March 23 and you can buy on Internet, emerged from his first trip to Cameroon bassist and singer Richard Bona, who, according to Efe said the Colombian, marked both artistic and personal life.
"Yaoundé", the title her second album, was the first song he wrote for this project, which also drew rhythms from different parts of Colombia that originated in African music, fused with jazz, a genre that has been highlighted.
The theme "Ronca Paddle", played by Sofia Rei Koutsovitis Argentina and also included on this disc belongs to the folklore of the Colombian Pacific.
"There are many elements of Colombian music without falling into the folklore and the Afro-Cuban," Efe said, recalling that first traveled to Africa in 2005, a continent that has visited seven times and "one of the things struck me most was how people live there. "
"Their daily struggle is to find water and one is complaining here about the situations we have, but we can decide if that is what we want or not, but they do not," he said.
recalled his childhood in Bogota, when he came in contact with Latin jazz, mambo, the music of Tito Puente, "the New York of the 70" and that your grandparents listened to "because my uncle Eddie Martinez, who is a pianist" played with several of these bands.
"I grew up with that music, which was not usually heard in Bogotá that time," he said, adding that when he was between 7 and 8 years, his grandparents died "and that was my contact with this music and became "a normal kid" who listened to pop and rock radio. "
However, he said, spent much time alone at home because his mother worked, what did the opportunity to" dig and listen again to the records of their grandparents. "
" As to the twelve or thirteen was a fan of 'Superman' and I remembered there was a record that was on the cover and my grandmother put a lot, "he said referring to the album" Indestructible "percussionist Ray Barretto Rican.
"That decided he wanted to be like Barreto. I found him this power, the engine that inspired me. At that time in Bogota society not hear salsa on the radio, it was very rock, very Americanized, "he said.
argued that unlike other drummers," did not grow up surrounded by drums. I put the disks in my apartment and I imagined New York and the Caribbean in my mind, is something I feel in my soul, blood, "he said.
" The drums were the neighbors sent me to the police constantly " recalled with a laugh Torres, who at age 15 hours a day spent studying at the Catholic school to take courses in music at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, and some nights to play with various groups in clubs in the capital.
"In the bars the employees and musicians helped me a lot" because it was less " said.
The teenager then kept his night life to avoid being expelled from the strict Catholic school I attended.
After graduating from college, where he studied classical music, Torres worked several years in his country that was released by music and arrangements for soap operas like "Dog Love," which won awards, and for movies like "Blow stadium Sergio Cabrera.
However, his dream of Latin jazz musician still dormant, so that at age 21 was established in Miami, where he began working with Arturo Sandoval "preparing to come to New York", which finally did in 2002.
"
already knew me for four years with Sandoval and let me play in the 'downloads' in the clubs, "where he also met Barreto, who shared the stage as well as other important musicians, he said. " Here I started to make my career in Latin jazz and I have fulfilled my dream, but I still have much to do. The reality is that it has been difficult, but there is a level of good musicians with whom you dream and you have inspired and given me the opportunity to work and that makes you find your own voice, "he said.
Sammy TORRES our" Manenguito Creole "served its purpose with his first album entitled SKIN TONES (I dared to translate it as TONE LEATHER). Surprised and reacted to music lovers of jazz and Latin music, not only for quality in the production and recording is vital at this time, but by the multitalented wielding protagonist in composing, arranging and playing conga bold style a progressive and Giovanni Hidalgo, Anga, Joel and Poleo (which is too big), of course not forgetting the ancient heritage of Chano, Mongo, El Niño Alfonso and Tata.
This young "rolo Bogota" looking like a decent student has a background Javeriana University (which I would translate "tour") that includes 4 years with the demanding and unforgiving Arturo Sandoval, jazz festivals in Japan USA and Europe, Second place in a very difficult hand contest free jazz percussion Thelonious Monk and survive in the harsh environment of Latin jazz Yorker where it is recognized and applauded.
TONES OF LEATHER Samuel Torres reiterated that these days the profession of conguero not limited to "guapería" to get their hands on the drum loud and can make a rainbow of music around the leather, if you study, listen , is learned and inspiration as it has done with dedication, technique and discipline the young Torres.
The trip by the grooves of this exciting self-financed CD like many other good alternatives that do not have "patrons" in this dark time in which to Music the "secrets" grammy already know who are the winners and who are successful, opens with a crazy montuno, which heats the cd from the first chords, and prepares the listener for a musical journey that takes you from the motherland, that of Gypsies and rumba, to Colombia, Brazil, the Middle East and ends at the No. 7 subway bound for Queens, New York. Amid all this "musical melting pot" to boil soothes us the voice of a siren Julia Dollinson name.
credits accompanying musicians show that Samuel and skin tones deserve the applause (the standing ovation I would say) and respect for international Latin jazz community. With Ernesto Simpson on drums, John Benitez on bass and piano Hector Martinong in "grounded" (a term that prevents electrical short circuits) a conga virtuoso and Samuel was able to go from heaven to hell, grab all 4 congas and back to reality (in other words that Afinque sometimes losing the speed of the drum) with all the peace and security that this musical Bermuda Triangle registry in this unique recording. SKIN TONES
and Samuel Torres our "Colombian Giovanni" and entered the list of "grammy underground" 2005-2006 which is awarded the anonymous buyers and music lovers of good latin jazz in the world!
Sammy "did you get the card" and I will have eaten! Highest Recommended
Gary Dominguez
Musicians
Topics
1. Crazy Montuno
2. Interlude one
3. Saying goodbye
4. Two
Interlude 5. Observatory
6. Rumba with Maria
7. Ajiaco (colombian potato soup)
8. The key
9.
skintones 10. October 22nd
11. Express to Queens
12. Fairy tale
13. Three
Interlude 14. Ajiaco (radio version)
15. Observatory (radio version)
16. Crazy Montuno (radio version)
17. The key (radio version)
John Benitez - Bass
Hector Martignon - Piano
Julia Dollison - Vocal
Mike Rodriguez - trumpet
Ernesto Simpson - Drums, Cowbell, EFX
Mike Campagna - Tenor Sax
Edmar Castaneda - Harp
Ralph Irizarry - Timbal
Wolfgang Barros - Colombian Maracon
Samuel Torres - Congas, Percussion, Fender Rhodes, EFX, Piano
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